This is pretty interesting – US, UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand are taking part in a fictitious cyberwar as an exercise to prepare and plan for sustained cyber attacks including some of which have actually caused power outages.
I personally think it’s a great idea, I must have missed Cyber Storm I as this is [...]
It seems India are getting serious about terrorist activities being co-ordinated via the Internet, they are starting to run extremely deep surveillance on many cyber-cafes in Mumbai.
The solution appears to be some kind of ‘legal’ trojan system that will collect logs and send them to the police.
The Mumbai police will soon have khabris deployed (not [...]
After the recent fiasco about the Pentagon being Hacked by Chinese Military another few governments have piped up with information about cyber surveillance by China.
The latest is France.
It seems like right now china has it’s fingers in many pies.
France has become the fourth country to speak out against hackers in China [...]
It seems even though vendors are pushing their snakeoil harder than ever, the actual figures show that the money lost due to cybercrime has decreased every year for the last four years!
Perhaps people are finally getting more secure, it’s not suprising with the advent of cheaper and easier to use intrusion detection and intrusion prevention [...]
Interesting to see this just a little while after Malaysia announced IMPACT, it’s anti cyber-terrorist task force..
IMPACT is its name, and making an impact in the battle against cyber-terrorism is its mission. Unveiled in Austin, Texas, the Malaysian initiative seeks to bring together governments and the international private sector to deal with increasing threats in [...]
Types of activities that will become illegal under the proposed laws include making or supplying “hacking tools”- computer programmes or code that can help crack passwords or bypass security systems – and will be punishable by up to two years in prison.
Isn’t this legitimate action for any security enthusiast, hobbiest or professional involved in penetration [...]
